A court in Kuzbass fined five activists protesting against coal mining

The Myskovsky City Court of the Kemerovo Region fined five activists protesting against the coal mining methods used by the Sibanthracite group of companies. It is reported by MBH Media.

Maxim Voloshenko, Valentina and Anatoly Mitroshin, Tatyana Shanina and Olga Kostina were found guilty of blocking the road (Article 20.18 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) and each was fined 25 thousand rubles (less than the minimum fine provided for in this article). The activists plan to appeal the verdict in the Kemerovo regional court.

According to KuzPress, on August 2, residents of the villages of Tetenza and Borodino blocked the technological road owned by Razrez Kiyzassky JSC, a company of the Sibantrotsit group. They wanted to draw attention to the violations committed during the construction and operation of the road passing through the buffer zone of the water intake well. The governor of the Kemerovo region, Sergei Tsivilev, promised that the road would be closed in August 2020.

• Residents of the Kemerovo region are concerned about the impact of coal mining on the ecological situation in the region. Earlier it was reported that in Cheremza, security forces dispersed a camp of protesters against the construction of a loading station near the Kuznetsky Yuzhny open pit. After dispersal, three pensioners were fined. Also, a fine was imposed on environmental activist and freelance correspondent of Novosti Kiselevsk Vyacheslav Krechetov.

Fixed an error in the information about the place of work of Vyacheslav Krechetov.